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They are not giant—just normal scarf sizes. I make these on 1970s domestic knitting machines. I love machine knitting.
On the local farm in Shireoaks for a demomstration of old time farming. Traditionally these machines would travel from farn to farm in the late autumn and winter threshing the grain crops.
My wife and I were enjoying a coffee in a park in Toronto’s east end when he arrived at a bench nearby and parked his unique bicycle. It had a very low-to-the-ground frame and a very long wheelbase. I recognized it as a “custom” and when we had finished our coffees I went over to compliment him on the bike. He appreciated my interest and confirmed that it is a custom. The frame is from a company in California and it’s in the “low-rider” style. Meet Louis.
Louis is very proud of the bike and said he has another at home where he lives, an hour northeast of Toronto. He also has a Harley Davidson motorcycle he enjoys riding when he’s not bicycling. Louis explained that there are a number of such bicycles – all different – around Toronto and many of the owners are part of a group called Loco Riders. He himself found out about custom bikes when he saw one on the street a few years ago. When he expressed interest he was told to attend the Zombie Walk in Toronto if he wanted to see more customs. He did and that was all it took for him to fall in love with custom bikes. He had to have one of his own. This bike was purchased from the original owner who decided he wanted a lighter bike.
He keeps his bike inside and doesn’t use it around home much due to the fear of it being stolen. He transported it into Toronto today, parked his vehicle downtown near the harbor, and rode the bike along the Martin Goodman Trail to the Beaches where we met. The low-rider had a small skull attached to the hub of the long handlebars and he explained it was a squirrel skull he had come across. The fake human skull forms the knob on the “dead man’s shifter” used to change gears. He called my attention to a sticker on the bottom part of the frame that read “There’s no life like low life” in reference to the low-rider community. When I asked about the frame he said it’s referred to as a “gangster frame.”
Louis explained that some in the custom bike world consider themselves gang members but that his interest does not go in that direction. He seemed community-spirited and told of a “poker run” event he took part in recently on his Harley to help raise funds for a family in the community in need of financial assistance to help care for their special needs daughter.
When I asked what he does when he’s not riding he explained he works for a truck and heavy machine company in the business office. He used to be a truck transmission mechanic but health problems made it difficult for him to continue working under trucks and he has now spent several years in the business office.
When I asked him if he would let me photograph him and his bike for my Human Family project he said “Sure, if you want to.” I took a couple of photos and then he sat down on the bench to continue talking about custom bikes. As we talked, I asked to take another portrait-style photo of him sitting on the bench and he shrugged his agreement. “No problem.” He said he didn’t need a copy of the photos when I offered them and he proceeded to show me a multitude of photos he had on his cell phone.
I asked Louis to share a message with the project and he thought for a moment. “You’re never too old to have fun.” We both laughed and he elaborated “Here I am, 60 years old and I’m still playing with my toys.” Noting the bicycle helmet in my hand he said “I see you’re riding. What kind of bike do you ride?” I explained “Nothing unique. It’s just a pretty well used city bike.” Louis replied “There’s nothing wrong with city bikes.”
We parted with a friendly handshake and wished each other safe cycling.
This is my 844th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
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You can't see the man's face, but I can see the machine's face staring at me in the foreground. Shot at Stave Falls Power Plant.
The engine and steam crew walk about the big T-1 taking care of the many needs of the engine before the return trip to Reading. Jim Thorpe, Pa.
Transport to the Mystery Inc. gang, this colourful camper van has featured in some form or another in Scooby-Doo since 1969!
"You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception."
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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A screen shot of the television during the episode of Star Trek, "The Doomsday Machine." A multiple of four different exposures on one negative. Kind of like a Viewmaster reel.
Camera: Minolta XD11
Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm film
Shooting program: Manual (of course!)
Date: Early 1979
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.
Minolta Kodacolor 100 Smokey And The Bandit 24-1cf
Grime covered machinery in this former automotive plant which I believe is now demolished. Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
This cool little bike here is a 1962 Mustang Trail Machine. It is manufactured by the Mustang Motorcycle Company (same company who made the cool little cruiser style bikes called Mustangs) and it was designed, obviously, for trail use. It's got a little Briggs & Stratton engine (probably around 5hp or so) and it is just a neat little machine! Taken at the 2018 Lake Mirror Classic Car Show in Lakeland, Florida.
Sid Smith (born Brooklyn, New York, 1968) is an American artist.
“My intent in creating is to have poetic expression through the physicality of painting and my sculpture. I am very much into the process of building a painting, and lose myself in the creation of my paintings. If pressed for an explanation of why I did a certain piece a certain way I would have to say I was compelled to make it that way. Colour is an integral part of my work and I consider
carefully my combinations and placement, finding inspiration in memories of things I have seen, and mood. Each piece begins as blocks and marks of colour with no concrete direction other than letting my brush and knife and colour find the canvas as they evolve along the way. I may add words, numbers, geometries and paint over them, rework them again, sand and carve through
layers to excavate them to the surface again. I try to bring my memories, emotions and desires into a physical state on the canvas and hope that some of this is conveyed through my craft to the viewer. Bringing to my work those things that we carry with us and memories of what we have left behind. Ultimately my work comes into being for my love of creating and released so that
I may keep evolving and honing my way of creating these pictures.”
[Oil on canvas, 60 x 36 inches]
I took this before christmas and thought I had posted it. I checked and found I had not ........so here it is.
I think this is one of my fav photos os my time in Bognor Regis.
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"Tamping machine, Barretstown, Co. Kilkenny"
Granted it required a Google search to find even the basics of what a "tamper" does, but am still none-the-wiser as to the purpose of the device that seems to be preceding the engine down the track. Any ideas? And, if our usual "shadow" experts can identify a time of day, perhaps we can establish if that worker's off home for lunch - or his tea...
We are going with Niall McAuley on this one, he suggests Barretstown, Co.Kildare (just outside Newbridge) this suggestion is backed fully by Dr O Mac .
Dr Owen also tells us that the machine is an early 1960's Plasser & Theurer VKR 05-E tamper DX74108. Apparently the tamping tines should vibrate with the ideal frequency of exactly 35 Hz. This directional, linear vibration combined with the non-synchronous tine movement produces a homogeneously compacted ballast bed.
Photographer: O'Dea, James P
Collection: O'Dea Photograph Collection
Date: 5 June 1966
NLI Ref: ODEA 42/46
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie